Did Joe Biden decide who received pardons and commutations? The New York Times cast fresh doubt on the legitimacy of thousands of clemency actions this week.

Biden refuted allegations that he didn’t authorize the auto-pen for every pardon issued at the end of his term. However, the Times reviewed e-mails during the post-election period, and discovered that aides compiled the pardon lists and then affixed Biden’s signature to most of them with the mechanical device. It included a controversial pre-emptive pardon to Anthony Fauci, among other administration officials, as well as thousands of others in blanket pardons.

This obviously calls into question the validity of these clemency actions.

The real issue is Biden’s competency. Put simply, we need to know who exercised authority granted exclusively to the elected president. The pardons are the entrée to accountability. We need to focus on the most important question – who was the real president in the Biden administration?

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Elon Musk is starting a third party evidently, seemingly out of pique with Donald Trump. About this, a few things. Good luck with it having any traction whatsoever. When a strong conservative’s picking up the pieces and cobbling together a new coalition of conservatives and former Democrats, one John Anderson tried to run against him with a message of social liberalism and economic austerity Just Like Musk. We remember Ronald Reagan, John Anderson is a distant memory, if of any memory.

Second, to quote the polling expert at CNN last week, “Republicans love Donald Trump the way that Americans love Disney World.” In fact, no Republican president has had higher approval from within his own party to date. So where is Musk going to garner activists and voters? From the Democratic party that has been lambasting him and protesting him like few they’ve ever attacked before?

Independents? The No Labels movement has been around for fifteen years and has won exactly nothing. Same for Andrew Yang’s Forward Party. We shouldn’t be too worried about this new windmill Elon Musk is charging.

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For nine years, the people who put together a grand hoax based on a campaign dirty trick, have never been held accountable. A new CIA review concludes that American intelligence knew that the Steele Dossier was baseless, and yet then Director John Brennan insisted on using it to conclude that Russia had interfered with the 2016 election to benefit Donald Trump.

However, Brennan directly contradicted that finding in testimony before Congress. He claimed that “it was not in any way used as a basis for that conclusion.” Now, however, analysts involved say Brennan insisted on using the Steele Dossier and also pressured analysts to ratify his own conclusion rather than allow them to independently assess the intelligence.

After eight years, it may be too late to hold Brennan legally accountable for his alleged perjury. We need a full investigation, however, for long-overdue political accountability for the attempt to hijack intelligence data to undermine a duly elected president.

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